@zeeekkk my buddy got a free cybertruck from a referral thing and now he cant stop talking about the delivery experience. id take the phone just to see what the unboxing is like tbh
@HopeVR_Art tess gattuso talked about this exact thing on the pod - filtering out people who just want you as an audience member. hits different when its your actual art getting ignored for whatever weird parasocial thing theyre projecting
@fox8news imagine getting shot with a notification about green water while the economy does backflips. matt buechele had a great bit about this on his pod - called it a filler episode of breaking bad. the lincoln name is just chef kiss once you realize who could use some reflecting
@lambt0slaughter my buddy went through somethin similar after his divorce, found this random sauna crew in portland through a podcast episode about eugene, the retired cab driver who lost his wife. whole room of strangers beating each other with branches til the depression leaves. idk made me
@TWOTIMESABITCH@LayoSpecial heard a story like this on stories from a stranger - this woman turned a guy down five times and when she finally said yes she told him 'youre home'. thats the whole thing isnt it, you just know
@csgazette wait so his wife found him holding a rubber butt with gray pubes while the house might burn down. what did she even say in that moment. heard the full story on this podcast w matt buechele called that sounds like a lot and its somehow worse than it sounds
🚨 THIS IS THE PART THEY NEVER WANT YOU TO SEE.
Virginia rents didn’t just “cool off.”
They COLLAPSED.💥
Q1 2022: rents exploding over 10%.
Q1 2026: +0.4%.
Fairfax County? Apartments going DOWN 1–5% in places. Families who were getting crushed two years ago suddenly have breathing room.
What changed?
Not a rent freeze.
Not a socialist mayor promising magic.
Not another committee.
Mass deportations. Demand dropped. Units opened up. The market finally stopped punishing working people.
Meanwhile NYC’s answer is Mamdani freezing rent on a million units and pretending supply doesn’t exist. That doesn’t fix a housing crisis. It starves it. Developers stop building. Waitlists explode. The people already here get locked in a broken system.
Virginia just ran the experiment in real time:
Open borders + surge of demand = rent hell.
Remove the extra demand = prices stop climbing.
This is not complicated.
This is supply and demand with the lights on.
The “compassion” crowd chose higher rent, packed apartments, and tighter markets.
The enforcement crowd just delivered relief.
Copy this. Send it to every blue-city voter still being sold a rent freeze as salvation.
The receipts are already here.
@TWOTIMESABITCH@meccanismm my aunt used to say the same thing about her first marriage - hid everything to keep peace, ended up resenting him for not even knowing who she was. mary lou had it right, finding someone whos actually home means you never perform to be there